Doctor fined RM10k for making false RTD declaration

Doctor fined RM10k for making false RTD declaration

He pleads guilty to validating a medical check-up done for a man to renew his Class D driver's licence that enables him to drive a public service vehicle when no examination had taken place.

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IPOH:
A doctor was fined RM10,000 by the Sessions Court here today after changing his plea to guilty for making a false declaration in the Road Transport Department’s vocational licence application form L8, three years ago.

Judge S Indra Nehru also ordered Dr R Pathmanathan, 55, to be jailed six months if he failed to pay the fine.

The doctor paid the fine.

Pathmanathan had pleaded not guilty when charged on Jan 5 for validating a medical check-up done for an individual to renew the Class D driver’s licence that enables him to drive public service vehicles, when in fact no examination had taken place.

He made a false declaration in the application form for Mohd Saiful Baqhtiar Mohd Rohaizat at Kumpulan Poliklinik Manjung Sdn Bhd, No 2446 Taman Samudera, Bandar Seri Manjung near Manjung on March 7, 2013.

Deputy public prosecutor Nurul Wahidah Jalalluddin of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission had asked the court to impose a jail sentence, saying the offence was serious.

Counsel Datuk V Manokaran, who represented Pathmanathan, asked the court to impose a fine.

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